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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Zazie Beetz and Emma Tillinger Koskoff, actress and producer of the film Joker.

Zazie Beetz plays Sophie, the single mom of a 5 year old girl in Todd Philips’ Joker, in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival. in the life of Arthur Fleck aka Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix, she represents a chance of empathy in a world, of Gotham City, that lacks one. For Emma Tillinger, this is the first time producing a comic book film but she has always considered Joker as an exploration of the human mind as it stands halfway between a blockbuster and a arthouse film.

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Todd Phillips, director of the film Joker.

Todd Phillips is at the 76th Venice Film Festival in competition with Joker, an origin story of the most important antagonist of Batman, Joker, played by Joaquin Phoenix. Is turning into Joker a defeat for the wanna be comedian Arthur Fleck or an evolution? Todd Phillips clarifies that the film is structured and narrated in a way that the audience can decide.

Joker centers around the iconic arch nemesis and is an original, standalone fictional story not seen before on the big screen. Phillips’ exploration of Arthur Fleck, who is indelibly portrayed by Joaquin Phoenix, is of a man struggling to find his way in Gotham’s fractured society. A clown-for-hire by day, he aspires to be a stand-up comic at night… but finds the joke always seems to be on him. Caught in a cyclical existence between apathy and cruelty, Arthur makes one bad decision that brings about a chain reaction of escalating events in this gritty character study.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Lauren Greenfield, director of the film The Kingmaker.

Lauren Greenfield joins us at our Venice studios to discuss about the unbelievable – and yet extremely true – story about Imelda Marcos and her family in The Kingmaker, screening here in Venezia 76 out of competition. From a character study to a real investigation into the past, present and future horrors of the Marcos Family in the Philippines, The Kingmaker is a powerful documentary the helps us to unlock the dangers that we are facing today and hopefully avoid the same mistakes we have committed in the past.

The Kingmaker: Centred on the indomitable character of Imelda Marcos, The Kingmaker examines, with unprecedented access, the Marcos family’s improbable return to power in the Philippines. The film explores the disturbing legacy of the Marcos regime and chronicles Imelda’s present-day push to help her son, Bongbong, win the vice-presidency. To this end, Imelda confidently rewrites her family’s history of corruption, replacing it with a narrative of a matriarch’s extravagant love for her country.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Nicolò Comotti, Chiara Nicoletti and Marta Balaga.

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti, Chiara Nicoletti with guest star Marta Balaga come to you with the third daily report from the 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. On this episode, we talk about Todd Phillip’s Joker (starring Joaquin Phoenix), Costa Gavras’ Adults in the Room, Alex Gibney’s Citizen K and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Konstantina Kotzamani, director of the film Electric Swan. 

Greek-born filmmaker Konstantina Kotzamani stops by FRED’s radiocall studio for a quick chat about her mid-length film, Electric Swan, presented out of competition at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Here, she talks about the themes of her film, including its environmental dimension, and answers whether she believes there is beauty to be found in destruction.

Electric Swan: Buildings are not supposed to move. But on Avenida Libertador 2050, a building moves and the ceiling shivers, causing a strange nausea that devours its residents. Those who live on the top are afraid they’ll fall, the ones who live beneath are afraid they’ll drown.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Guillermo Arriaga, director of the film No One Left Behind. 

Guillermo Arriaga directed a new mid-length film, No One Left Behind, which was presented out of competition at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. The Mexican filmmaker and longtime collaborators of such cineastes as Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, tells us about this timely film that in a unique way explores the theme of multiculturality and, particularly, comments on the strained relations between the U.S. and Mexico. Besides this, we also ask him about the solemnity of the way in which in No One Left Behind, he portrays the central aspect of death.

No One Left Behind: A group of American soldiers travel into Mexico for an unknown mission and they encounter a surprising world which changes their views.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti come to you with the second daily report from the 76th edition of the Venice International Film Festival. On this episode, we talk about Roman Polanski’s J’Accuse, Guillermo Arriaga’s No One Left Behind, Benedict Andrews’ Seberg (starring Kristen Stewart) and more.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Laura Dern, Scarlett Johansson, Adam Driver and Noah Baumbach, actors and director of the film Marriage Story.

“From the narrative structure of a divorce I was able to tell the story of a marriage”: these are the words through which Noah Baumbach describes the starting point of Marriage Story, in competition at the 76th Venice Film Festival. Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson focus on explaining two very symbolic and yet delicate moments in the film, when their couple is really dissolving. The details are the key to understand their characters and make the audience feel like they know them. Laura Dern plays the wife’s lawyer in the film and Baumbach gifts her with one of the best speeches/lines in cinema so far. Laura’s presence through her character is a statement that women can have it all or at least can try to achieve this completion.

Marriage Story is an incisive and compassionate portrait of a marriage breaking up and a family staying together.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Raymund Ribay Gutierrez and Max Eve Eigenmann, director and actress of the film Verdict.

Director Raymund Ribay Gutierrez and Actress Max Eve Eigenmann join us in Venice to talk about their experience on Raymund’s first feature Verdict, here in the Orizzonti’s official competition. A gruelling journey through the harsh reality of bureaucracy in the common cases of domestic violence in the Philippines, Verdict avoids staticity in favour of a compelling and visceral style, where pain and frustration are tangible.

Verdict: Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and beats Joy brutally. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police post to finally get him sent to jail. Justice, Joy learns, takes time at best and is impossible to get at worst. Not without reason, she feels that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Haifaa Al Mansour, director of the film The Perfect Candidate.

Haifaa Al Mansour is an energetic woman, with a positive vibe that flows around her. When talking about her new film The Perfect Candidate, she explains the importance of sisterhood between all women of the world and the slow but inevitable evolution of Saudi society towards women and social rules.

The Perfect Candidate: A determined young Saudi doctor’s surprise run for office in the local city elections sweeps up her family and community as they struggle to accept their town’s first female candidate.

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